Nat. order. HYPERICINEiE. 
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shrubby looking- plant, from three to three and a half feet in height ; 
the stem is sufFruticose, and round ; branches are somewhat wing-ed ; 
leaves ovate, very blunt ; calyx lanceolate, acute ; peduncles some- 
times bibracteate ; stamens equal in leng-th with the corolla. The 
herb is scentless. Native of Greece and the Levant. Flowers in 
September. 
Hypericum Jlorihundum. Bundle-flowered St. John's- wort. This 
is a shrubby plant, varying- in heig-ht from two to four feet, with a round 
stem ; leaves sessile, lanceolate, numerous, without dots ; peduncles 
dilated and somewhat compressed towards the apex ; calyx obtuse ; 
corolla and stamens marcescent. It is a native of the Canary Islands, 
and flowers during- the month of Aug-ust. 
Hypericum coj^difolium. Heart-leaved St. John's-wort. This is 
a shrubby looking- plant, sending- up a round stem about two feet hig-h ; 
leaves elliptical, acute, coriaceous, smooth, somewhat stem-clasping-, 
without dots ; flower-bearing- branches crowded, and leafy below ; 
bracteas ovate-cordate, acute ; sepals ovate, mucronate, without dots ; 
petals oblong, unequal-sided, obliquely mucronulate ; stamens short ; 
styles unconnected, scarcely longer than the corolla. This plant is a 
native of Nipaul, and flowers from April till October. 
Hypericum quinquenervium. Five-nerved-leaved St. John's-wort. 
This is a small, delicate looking plant, with a stem about one foot in 
height ; and which is tetragonal ; leaves somewhat stem-clasping, 
ovate, obtuse, obscurely five-nerved, full of pellucid dots, which are 
acute on the under surface ; corymbs dichotomous ; sepals linear-lan- 
ceolate. This is a perennial, herbaceous, hardy plant. Native of the 
United States, and found quite plenty from Canada to Carolina, in over- 
flowed places. It is also found on Mount Quindiu, in South America. 
Hypericum axillare. Axillary-flowered St. John's-wort. This 
species has a shrubby, round stem, somewhat diffused ; leaves lance- 
olate-linear, narrowed at the base, with revolute margins ; sepals rather 
unequal ; styles at flrst joined, but afterwards free ; peduncles on the 
top of the branches axillary, three-flowered, with the middle flower 
